The Department of Commerce’s Office of Textiles and Apparel reports that monthly imports of cotton, wool, manmade fiber, silk blend, and non-cotton vegetable fiber textile and apparel products totaled 6.27 billion square meter equivalents in September, down 5.6 percent from August but up 1.1 percent from September 2018. Textile imports totaled 3.68 billion SME, down 4.7 percent for the month but up 5.2 percent from the previous year, while apparel imports of 2.59 billion SME were down 6.8 percent from August and 4.3 percent from a year before.
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Overall Imports. Total year-to-date imports were 53.1 billion SME, up 4.9 percent from the previous year, as textile imports gained 5.9 percent to 31.5 billion SME and apparel imports rose 3.5 percent to 21.6 billion SME.
For the year ending in September imports were 71.0 billion SME, up 6.0 percent from a year earlier, as textile imports increased 7.1 percent to 42.4 billion SME and apparel imports rose 4.5 percent to 28.6 billion SME.
Source Countries. OTEXA has reported the following statistics on textile and apparel imports from major source countries for September 2019.
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SME
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Monthly change %
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Annual change %
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$ Value
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Monthly change %
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Annual change %
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China
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3.20 billion
|
-8.3
|
-4.3
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$3.57 billion
|
-14.8
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-17.0
|
|
India
|
501.1 million
|
-1.0
|
+6.0
|
$638.6 million
|
-2.6
|
+5.0
|
|
Vietnam
|
459.1 million
|
+0.7
|
+8.8
|
$1.36 billion
|
n/a
|
+17.2
|
|
Pakistan
|
217.9 million
|
-7.3
|
+17.7
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$250.8 million
|
-12.5
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+16.9
|
|
Mexico
|
205.6 million
|
-7.3
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-0.1
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Bangladesh
|
173.3 million
|
-8.0
|
-9.7
|
$496.9 million
|
-6.1
|
-3.5
|
|
Korea
|
163.7 million
|
-13.0
|
+2.2
|
$82.6 million
|
-4.9
|
+7.5
|
|
Cambodia
|
152.7 million
|
+12.1
|
+37.4
|
$333.9 million
|
+5.8
|
+37.9
|
|
Indonesia
|
130.8 million
|
+2.5
|
+8.6
|
$420.8 million
|
-2.4
|
+9.6
|
|
Turkey
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89.4 million
|
+5.7
|
+37.5
|
$147.3 million
|
-8.3
|
+15.6
|
|
Taiwan
|
87.4 million
|
n/a
|
+5.3
|
$64.4 million
|
n/a
|
+1.0
|
|
Canada
|
84.7 million
|
+11.2
|
-3.1
|
$131.9 million
|
+21.1
|
+11.0
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